An

Electronic Catalog

of the Sounds of Spanish

© 2003-2007 by Terrell A. Morgan, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, The Ohio State University

(This site is under construction. Last updated 21 April 2007.)

Animated Articulatory Diagrams
for Learning to Produce the Sounds of Spanish

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Pictures for Practicing the Sounds of Spanish

Letters of the alphabet

Vowels

Voiceless stops: /p/, /t/, /k/

Voiced bilabial fricative

Voiced velar fricative

 Palatal obstruents

 Voiceless postalveolar affricate

 Voiceless velar/uvular/glottal fricative (la "jota")

Sibilant fricatives: /s/

 "Distinción"

 Voiced palatal nasal (la "eñe")

 Voiced velar nasal

Laterals (la "ele")

Voiced alveolar trill (la"erre múltiple")

Voiced alveolar tap (la"erre simple")

Speech Samples from Around the Spanish-Speaking World

Argentina

Bolivia

Chile

Dominican Republic

Ecuador

El Salvador

Guatemala

Honduras

Mexico

Nicaragua

Paraguay

Puerto Rico

Spain

Uruguay

USA

Representative, unrehearsed tokens of dialectal phenomena
isolated from videorecordings

The so-called "trilled r"